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Thursday, 3 September 2015

Population In Malaysia

Hi people! Thank you for reading my blog again and support my blog. So,
today I would love to tell you about the population of Malaysia. First of all I
will tell you about the number of people that live in Malaysia.

Total land are and population of Malaysia

Malaysia has about 30952064 people in it. Consist of 15695047 male
and 15257018 female and this year they estimate the number of this population
will increase to 31 127 247 in the beginning of 2016.

The main races in Malaysia

There are three main races in Malaysia which are Malay race,
Chinese race and Indian race. Malays race is the origin population that live in
Tanah Melayu during colonize of British and other Europe countries. After
British take Tanah Melayu from communist, British bring in workers from China
and India to work for them. So, after independence of Tanah Melayu, the
authorities of Tanah Melayu at that time urged the citizen to be unity and help
each other. So from that event, Malaysia was well-known as country that has
various types of race, ethnic, culture, and religion.

Example of Bersunat ceremony

Every race has its own culture. So, I will tell you about the
interesting culture in every races and how these 3 races can live in the same
country even though there are many differences between these 3 races. First of
all I will tell you about Malay race which is circumcision or in Malay it was
called as ‘Bersunat’. This ceremony is special for a boy with age approximately
between five and ten years old. Usually, the people who live in village will
organize this circumcision ceremony during school holiday. This is because after
the kids was being circumcised; they need to get some rest to make sure that
they are fully recovered. Before that, the kids will be dressed with a
beautiful Baju Melayu and a Sungkit Sampin or short sarung. After that they
will be procession through the village, before being finally placed upon a
specially constructed Dias (pelamin). Finally
after the ‘Tok Mudim’ (the person who is to perform the ceremony) then every
kid will be circumcision by him in a room. After it finish, the parents will
give ‘Wang Pengeras’ to the ‘Tok Mudim’ as a sign to thanks the ‘Tok Mudim’ for
success of the event.

example of Khatam Quran ceremony for girls

Secondly is Khatam Al-Quran ceremony. This ceremony will be
conducted after the kids are succeeding finish reading the Holy Quran. For
boys, usually this ceremony will be held before ‘bersunat’ ceremony. The ceremony
usually held at night after Isyak pray. It’s start with the boys sit on the
carpet floor in front of the Pelamin. The boys start read the final verses of the
Quran anf after finished reading the Quran he will kisses first the hand of his
Quran teacher, parents and finally the hands of the guests. After that, the
boys will sit on the Pelamin for a while and before descending for the feast
(jamuan). Following the jamuan each of the guests receives a bunga telor. This is
a boiled egg, sometimes dyed, and attached to a stick, with leaf or floral
decorations. The guests then leave.

example of dragon dance during Chinese New Year

So people, I think there are many input that I have given to all of
you, so I will proceed with Chinese culture. Firstly is Chines New Year
celebration. For your information, chines race will welcome Chinese New Year
with a very huge festival and usually Chinese New Year celebration will be
celebrated in such joy. During Chinese New Year, there is a dance called
‘Tarian Naga’ which is a few men or women will be in a dragon suit and they
will dance in beautiful steps without showing their faces. Chines New Year was
celebrated in a very good environment because they want to celebrate the new
years of Chinese calendar. During
Chinese New Year festival, there are lots of moon cake was served in every
house. There are also mandarin oranges and ‘kuih bakul’ was served as well. The
closing ceremony for Chinese New Year Festival is Chap Goh Meh celebration. It
is the sign that they already finish celebrating Chinese New Year festival.

The visitors will wear black cloth

Secondly is customs of death. Usually, when they chines people
still alive, they will order one coffin and a small area of land for them. This
is because after they died they want their body to be putted in the coffin and
land area that they already order before they died. Once there is someone died,
they are bathed and dressed with very beautiful cloths and they will be laid in
a very beautiful coffin. The person in charge of managing the remains will call
more people to cries during the ceremony. The more people criens during that
time the more respected the remains will get. While brought the remains there
are lots of sad songs will be played as a respective sign for the remains. After
the ceremony was finished, all the family members of remains are compulsory to
wear black cloths as a sing of mourning for several times. They will live as
usually after the time of mourning was finished.

The example of Vanakam sign

So people I know it’s a little bit boring right now, I hope you
have patience to finish reading this entry. You are now almost done because I
will proceed with the last race which is Indian race. So I will start now.
First of all I will tell about the sign of respect in Indian race. Usually
Indian when they meet each other, they will say ‘vanakam’. The meaning of this
word is like ‘hello’ or ‘hi’. They will
ask about their friend health, business, and work when they are meet-up. Other
than that, when you go to Indian house you need to eat anything that have been
serve by the host. This is because it is the sign that we respect their effort
to serve us in a good way. For your information, Indian people will serve you
with foods or various types of drinks to their guests. You have to accept it as
a respect sign and you need to take it by using your right side hand. Never
used your left side hand to accept anything forms Indian people because it is inappropriate.

Indian people need to respect their mother

Next is family role. Even though father is the main role in a
family, Indian people still considers mother to be respected and their thought
is ‘Mother is a god’ and they should respect their mother. In a family,
daughter was called as ‘amma’ because they also think that daughter will be a
mother in future so they need to respect them too. In Indian family, they will
treat their daughter specialy and they will take care of their daughters
properly.

So people, I think that’s all for this entry. We will meet again on
the next post. Don’t foget to catch-up my entry people!!! byee.